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General Cricket => Your Cricket => Grounds => Topic started by: tim2000s on April 30, 2012, 05:20:18 PM
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Hopefully got the first match of the season tomorrow evening. It'll be played on a ground renowned for swing, seam and being a bit of a pudding after this much rain. The outfield dies pretty quickly but if we get a bit of rain tomorrow afternoon I fear we'll be on the artificial. How quickly does your pitch dry out?
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Our ground dries very quick, but would need very very little rain for the rest of the week for the possibility of a game.
Because of our square our game has been rearranged to the away team's ground
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Normally pretty well at both my village club and league club, although I drove past the village club at the weekend and there were two massive ponds on the outfield...!!
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We have a slope so the top tracks arent too bad, bottom ones will be though.
The outfield isn't too bad. Grass is dry. Still hop if playing Saturday or Sunday!
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ours dries pretty quick. The combination of a gentle slope on the outfield and a proper laid square means it can take plenty of water. Just as well in Yorkshire!
From my experience I find that the harder the square the more water sits on top and doesn't drain.
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My new clubs pitch runs down a slope so the top Two or 3 will dry quite quick. Does not have to much affect on me as my 1st game is only on the 16th.. :(
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Ours is drying nicely, still very soft.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OfN2P1Y8Ins/T58Bsx1MEYI/AAAAAAAAFHU/RWkjv3mXgGs/s800/DSC_0901.JPG)
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Postage stamp?
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not really, 50 yards square from the middle wicket but the straight boundaries are 80 yards.
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50 yard boundaries are quite small, outfield looks very green and lush at the moment :)
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50 yards is small, but the outfield makes up for that, it's pretty long due to the massive rainfall. Square boundaries only an issue if you bowl short.
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That looks beautiful, if only we had grounds like that here :)
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...do we have a 'post a pic of your ground' thread?
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that boundry is pretty small unless ur on other side of wicket,
left and right boundires are small at headingley,
but straight hits are massive lol
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not really, 50 yards square from the middle wicket but the straight boundaries are 80 yards.
Why was last Saturdays game cancelled was your ground too wet?
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ours wasn't cancelled. Both our teams played away from home and got a game in.
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...do we have a 'post a pic of your ground' thread?
If not then we should now :)
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ours wasn't cancelled. Both our teams played away from home and got a game in.
Damn wrong person haha... whos the guy whos groundsman at Marlow CC on here?
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Playing away at Whyteleafe on Saturday so I'll be interested to hear how their ground is, our nets has been cancelled tonite so I'm guessing our home groundis a little on the the soggy side. God know what the council pitches are like at the moment, Serco are supposed to be looking after them, but knowing them they probably won't go near them due to health and safety!
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Playing away at Whyteleafe on Saturday so I'll be interested to hear how their ground is, our nets has been cancelled tonite so I'm guessing our home groundis a little on the the soggy side. God know what the council pitches are like at the moment, Serco are supposed to be looking after them, but knowing them they probably won't go near them due to health and safety!
Who do you play for? I know a couple of Whyteleafe players.
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Who do you play for? I know a couple of Whyteleafe players.
Woking & Horsell, be great to know how their place is!
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Damn wrong person haha... whos the guy whos groundsman at Marlow CC on here?
That's my father lol
He gave up on Weds last week. Not too hopeful about this week either. Marlow doesn't drain well because it's 200 yards from the Thames in a flood plain.
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That's my father lol
He gave up on Weds last week. Not too hopeful about this week either. Marlow doesn't drain well because it's 200 yards from in the Thames in a flood plain this week.
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:D - wouldn't be surprised.
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There was a photo in the Metro this morning of a flooded ground in Zummerzet...
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If its the same picture as the one in the mirror then that was the county ground that was flooded.
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tewkesbury cc is heavily waterlogged and from a pic on twitter new road, worcs isnt looking too good either.
i may be really stupid but when the drought first happened they mentioned about pumping water out of rivers to fill the reservoirs? surely it would be cheaper to do that from places like the severn river where its overflowing everywhere than pay all the insurance claims out for flood damage?
our training is still on atm, although we have had a huge amount of rain this morning so doubt we will get much done. probably end up doing some fitness work or fixing our new electronic scoreboard to the scorehut for the weekend. :D
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i may be really stupid but when the drought first happened they mentioned about pumping water out of rivers to fill the reservoirs? surely it would be cheaper to do that from places like the severn river where its overflowing everywhere than pay all the insurance claims out for flood damage?
Nah you're not being stupid, it's just that it's far cheaper for them to impose a hosepipe ban so they can line their pockets! Anyway we're getting the wrong type of rain!!!
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Nah you're not being stupid, it's just that it's far cheaper for them to impose a hosepipe ban so they can line their pockets! Anyway we're getting the wrong type of rain!!!
Yeah, it's that dry rain again, everybody knows we need the really wet stuff... :D
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Our main pitch dries fairly quickly, as we have a railway running behind our sightscreen (one of the longest in the country) and our second mitch is on a massive slope, so that dries reasonably quickly, although the bottom of the slope then becomes a bit of a swamp!
Our outfields are usually lightening quick, but because of all the rain are so slow. Shots that would normally zip away for 4 just pull up a yard or so short of the rope, meaning I have to continually run 2's and 3's! Anything aerial seems to just plug too...